the skull in the mail

judge and i explored the woods today.

i discovered something:

judge is the worst exploring buddy i can imagine!
he's loud and rough and he pulled me through a brier patch!
(now i have band-aids on the tops of my feet. ow.)
i had to lead him back to the house! what kind of hound is he, anyway?!


anyway, i also discovered the woods in our backyard lead out to an open field. i wonder where the property ends? annnnnnnd . . . i really just want to build a fort out there. bad.

also, i found a perfectly intact squirrel skull. my dad keeps a bucket full of small skulls in the kitchen at home. i'm trying to think of a way to send the skull to my dad in the mail, but after the big move i really don't trust the postal service with my belongings.

we sent all of our books by media mail and the box with our best books apparently exploded in denver and the books got all mixed in with the rest of the mail. (i think whoever opened the boxes to check the contents couldn't resist our great taste in literature and took off with our books!) anyway, we also ended up with someone's bible that had a rock taped inside of it. what?

mailing a skull will be a good challenge, i think.